Omnis, developer of one of the most powerful and flexible Rapid Application Development platforms in the market, announced today the launch of its latest release, Omnis Studio 8.0, which allows programmers and application developers to create enterprise, web and mobile applications for Windows, Linux, and OS X systems and mobile devices across all business sectors. … continue reading
MapD Technologies today unveiled its GPU-powered database and visual analytics software platform that enables data analysts to interactively explore large datasets at lightning speed. In addition to the general availability of its products, MapD announced that it has closed $10M in Series A funding from an investment syndicate led by Vanedge Capital with participation from … continue reading
These days, everyone has a best friend: Their smartphone. “On the Web, personalization is a constant struggle, whereas on mobile it’s pretty accurate,” said Nancy Hua, cofounder and CEO of Apptimize, a mobile A/B testing platform. “You know everything they’ve ever done. You also know their context at that moment: Are they on the go? … continue reading
Version 2.8 of the open-source distributed version-control system Git has been released. The new edition provides a variety of new features, bugfixes and other improvements. According to GitHub, the most notable new features include: Parallel fetches of submodules: “Using ‘git submodules,’ one Git repository can include other Git repositories as subdirectories. This can be a … continue reading
Strata and Hadoop World day two kicked off with more Big Data-related announcements. Chief among them was Platfora’s 5.2 update, which brings native Tableau integrations into this data analytics platform. Platfora 5.2 also brings the benefits of its “lenses” to other BI tools. Lens is the Platfora query language, and in this release, external BI … continue reading
Facebook continues to drum up new ideas and plans for its platform. This time, the company wants to turn Messenger into an “Everything App,” but the biggest change with this plan is that it will turn Messenger into an app that pays for things, according to Forbes. Now code found inside Messenger suggests Facebook plans … continue reading
Rancher Labs has announced its open-source container-management software is out of beta and generally available. Rancher 1.0 aims to accelerate all aspects of the software development pipeline, from writing and testing code, to running complex microservice-based applications. Features include the ability to select from multiple container orchestration frameworks like Docker Swarm and Kubernetes; a cloud-agnostic … continue reading
Accusoft, the leader in content and imaging solutions, today announced the release of version 11.0 of PrizmDoc (formerly Prizm Content Connect), the company’s flagship document and image processing product. The release includes several new features that will help developers accelerate product releases and provide enterprise clients with streamlined document workflows that offer improved accuracy and … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced a strategic alliance aimed at bringing combined benefits of Ceph and flash storage to enterprise customers. SanDisk’s award winning InfiniFlash™ flash storage system, paired with Red Hat Ceph Storage, offers world-class performance … continue reading
NGINX, Inc., the engine delivering sites and applications for the modern web, today announced the results of its first annual Future of Application Development and Delivery Survey. Based on the insight of more than 1,800 IT professionals, the survey found that developers are in command when it comes to choosing technology at their organizations, and … continue reading
Microsoft releases SQL Server for Linux. Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation. Microsoft strikes a deep partnership with Red Hat. Microsoft open-sources .NET and C#. Microsoft releases Office for iOS. At this point we should collectively let our jaws rise to their natural closed position and understand that the game has changed. The reality is that … continue reading
SQL is the prime building block of the modern enterprise. All those exciting applications, nifty mobile apps and massive back-end projects are, essentially, useless without the data behind them. That data may not be so important at runtime if the application is just saving logs or form information, but at the end of the day, … continue reading
